Kashtanka

1h 16m
Drama
4.5

Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child.

Cast

Yuriy Zimin
Fedya
Nikolai Panov
Georges, clown
Yevgeniya Khovanskaya
Owner of the night shelter
Naum Rogozhin
Mazamet, organ-grinder
Antonin Pankryshev
Luka
Leonid Yurenyov
Gvozd, vagabond
Yelena Tyapkina
Nastasya, washerwoman
Boris Snigiryov
Agafon, coachman
Gulya Korolyova
Girl from the Trubny market (uncredited)
Nikolay Trofimov
Street boy (uncredited)

Crew

Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Director, Screenplay
Yuriy Bolotov
Screenplay
Anton Chekhov
Short Story
Grigory Giber
Director of Photography
Dmitri Kolupayev
Production Design

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